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segmentation fault when running rc.sysinit

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sharper

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Hello,

I'm running RedHat 7.3 on a Siemens Scenic 300 PIII.
After fresh install with minimal packages I got my website running on Apache. Everything was running fine until three days after installation. I now get and error while booting
" /etc/rc.sysinit line 602: 184 segmentation fault" and similar errors with different lines in the same file. during the boot process the text becomes illedgible and [FAILED] appears to the right of numerous lines.

now line 602 in rc.sysinit goes something like

rm -f /fastboot [and other dirs]

am I right in saying that what vi tells me is line 602 is the same line that the error at?

anyhow the system boots to a login prompt and I can login as root. If i run the command "rm -f /fastboot" I get the error segmentation fault. If I run rm on its own I get the same error. If I run mkdir I get the segmentation error. I can traverse the directories fine and rmdir looks like it will work (although i cannot test it on a test directory it doesn't return the error). cp and mv also work.

This is driving me up the wall.

any help would be greatly appreciated

Sharper.
 
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